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Common questions

Paving questions answered for Edmonton owners

Five groups of questions, in the order they usually get asked. If yours is not here the guides go into more depth, and a phone call costs nothing either way.

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Quotes and prices

Quotes and prices in Edmonton

What a figure is made of and why two of them differ.

Access and ground conditions are the two variables that move a paving figure most, and neither is visible remotely. A phone number is a guess with a quote's confidence attached to it.
Usually the stated area, the build depths, or something excluded. Removal, disposal, drainage correction and markings are the four items most often left out of a total.
They are the specification, so yes. Two quotes with the same area and different depths describe two different products, and without the numbers there is nothing to compare.
Only the base should, and only if the rate was agreed first. Until the old surface lifts, the ground beneath it is inference, so that risk belongs in writing beforehand.
No, and it is the only way to give you something comparable. Measuring the area, reading the cracking pattern and checking the access is what turns a guess into a figure you can hold against anyone else's.
Where the traffic justifies it, yes, and where it does not it is waste. A truck apron needs more than a staff parking row, which is why a single depth across a whole site is usually wrong somewhere.

Repair or replace

Repairing or replacing your Edmonton surface

How the decision is actually made.

Look at the cracking pattern first. Cracks joined into connected shapes mean the base is moving, which repairs do not reach. Separate parallel cracks usually mean a repairable surface.
Not on colour. Grey is oxidation, and a grey surface with separate cracks and no settlement is a maintenance job that has years left in it rather than a candidate for replacement.
Usually that is the right answer, because surfaces fail unevenly. Replacing the failed zone and repairing the sound remainder puts the spend where the problem actually is.
Only where the base is sound, which is why the worst areas get opened or cored. A new surface course over a failed base reproduces the same failure in the same places.
It is the proportion of area involved rather than the count. Scattered holes in an otherwise sound surface are repairs, however unpleasant each one is to drive through.
Yes. New asphalt is noticeably darker and the difference stays visible for a season or more as it weathers, which is worth knowing in advance rather than at handover.

The work itself

The work on your Edmonton property

What a paving day involves and what follows it.

Often a single day for a typical residential drive. Larger areas and jobs with real base repair take longer, and that belongs in the quote rather than being discovered on the morning.
Because asphalt is laid hot and the delivery schedule works backwards from that. Machinery is usually on site before most people would call it a reasonable hour.
Move every vehicle off and clear the access route, including gates and bins. Shift anything fragile nearby, because there is vibration from compaction and dust from removal.
Usually a day or two, called on the weather rather than a fixed figure. Plan parking elsewhere for at least the first night as part of the booking, not on the evening.
No. A new surface stays pliable through its first warm season, so marks from tyres in hot weather are the asphalt behaving normally and they fade as the binder stiffens.
Water standing in a depression, an edge crumbling within weeks, or a joint opening up. Those are build questions rather than curing, so they are worth raising early.

Maintenance

Looking after your Edmonton surface

The cheap work that decides how long it lasts.

Seal the cracks, in autumn, before the first freeze. It is the least expensive item on any list and it stops the sequence that turns an open crack into a failed area.
Less often than most quotes assume, and the interval is set by exposure rather than by a calendar. A shaded drive and a south-facing one on the same street are not ageing at the same rate.
Pour a little water on it. If that water soaks straight in rather than beading and sitting for a moment, there is no coating left on the surface and the asphalt underneath is bare.
More than anything else. Water sitting on asphalt works into the base, and once the base softens the surface above it has nothing to rest on and fails in that spot.
No. It has to harden and finish releasing what is still in it, so a coat applied in the first months traps that and will not bond properly to the surface.
At that scale it is really just a reminder and an annual look at the cracks. The arithmetic works hardest on lots, where there is more surface, harder use and a budget that rewards predictable numbers.

Commercial sites

Commercial paving in Edmonton

Staging, approvals and what a property keeps running.

No. Sites are worked in sections with entrances done in halves, because a property that reads as shut from the road loses more in trade than the paving itself costs.
Yes, and on retail sites it usually should. It stays seasonal, since asphalt and sealer both need a dry surface above a certain temperature to cure overnight.
It does, and it should be visible rather than buried. Each phase is its own mobilisation and barrier set, so staging gets priced both ways and the site chooses.
Yes, and quotes are written for it. Items are separated into what is failing now and what has a season or two left, so the urgent half can be funded on its own.
No. Truck aprons and turning areas carry concentrated load while staff rows do not, so a single depth across a site is either over-built or under-built somewhere.
Last, once every surface and coating operation on the site has finished. Markings applied earlier get buried by a later stage, which means paying for exactly the same paint a second time.

Customer reviews

What Edmonton customers say

★★★★★ 4.9 · 127 reviews on Google
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★★★★★

Called with a question about driving on new asphalt and got a straight answer with the reason, not a booking pitch.

Zoe T.
Edmonton
★★★★

Their questions page told me why my driveway cracked before anyone came out. The site visit matched it.

Ben E.
St. Albert
★★★★★

Asked whether sealcoating was worth it on a ten-year-old driveway. They said yes with crack sealing first, and explained why.

Lena Z.
Edmonton
★★★★★

Every question I had on site was answered plainly. I understand my own driveway now.

Dana W.
Spruce Grove

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